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Milano: Edizioni Ciarrocca. Very Good. 1954. Hardcover. Boards are not flat due to a binding error. Pages a bit browned. ; Rebound in green leather with decorative blindstamped pattern. Gilt spine lettering, gilt spine design and three raised bands. New marbled endpapers. Nicely INSCRIBED in blue ink by someone in the rank of "Gen. Col. Degli Alpini" on front endpaper. INSCRIBED to Juan Peron when president of Argentina (December 1954) ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 229 pages .

Claremont: Friends of the Colleges At Claremont. Very Good+. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 52 pages .

New York: Oxford University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0195197518 . Light wear to DJ; Revolutionary armies are different--they are motivated by ideology or money, they are amateurs possibly lacking in military discipline. This book examines these troops along those lines, postulating the only Mao Tse-Tung was able to maintain such an army over an extended period of time ; 8vo; 278 pages .

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Wear with open tears to DJ; INSCRIBED, lengthily, to front free endpaper by author. stated first edition ; 8vo; 287 pages .

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Light chipping and small open tears to DJ. Boards with light wear to extremities. ; Author Steinbeck visited training centers across the US to learn about bomber pilots and crews; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 185 pages .

New York: Crown Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0517558637 . Slight wear to price clipped DJ with tiny small tears ; Fascinating, enjoyable read about the history of the Knight and their battlefield exploits during the Middle Ages (roughly 1330-1490) in Britain, France, Wales, Scotland, and Spain; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 192 pages .

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc.. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1973. First American Edition. Hardcover; Second Printing. 069810501x . Vertical crease down the middle of the DJ, not egregiously noticeable. Binding could be tighter; When the Vichy collaborationists took control in France, Winston Churchill did not want the French navy in enemy hands, so he ordered the French fleet destroyed via seizure, surrender or exile to the Carribean. Only the detachment in Algeria resisted, and so the battle was on; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 221 pages .

Leipzig: Karl Minde. Very Good. N.D.. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; NP pages .

Berlin Pankow: Cigaretten-Fabrik Garbaty. Very Good-. Hardcover. Boards with light wear. Binding loosening; In German. An ode on German roots from a difficult time in history. Chapters include German Landscape, German early colonies, German fairy tales, German classics, German castles and so on. Tipped in pictures probably from cigarette packages that had to be collected and sticked in. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

New York: Hearst's International Library Co.. Very Good+. 1916. Hardcover. Decorative boards with light rubbing to extremities. Gilt spine lettering a bit faded ; 8vo; 254 pages .

New York: International Publishers. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1935. Hardcover; Second Printing. Wear & small open tears to DJ; Accused with two others of setting the notorious Reichstag fire in 1933, this collection of letters sent from prison by suspect Dimitroff shows that he used the occasion of the trial to denounce German fascism. He was acquitted. ; 8vo; 160 pages .

New York: Random House. Very Good. 1943. Hardcover. Two pages in the introduction detached but present. Foxing and general wear present ; INSCRIBED ('Quent') by the author on the front free endpaper; 8vo; 278 pages .

New York: The Free Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover; Second Printing. 0029303605 . Small blemish to DJ rear; The American campaign in the Pacific during WWII ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 589 pages .

New York: Viking Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1936. Hardcover. DJ darkened and with small chips to spine ends. Bookplate ; 8vo .

New York: William Morrow & Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. Wear to DJ extremities with minute closed tears. Small dampstains to endpapers, inside of DJ, and boards, not affecting text; 250 soldiers were in hiding in occupied Holland. This is the story of their daring escape; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 245 pages .

Secaucus: Citadel Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0806503653 . Slight wear & chipping to price clipped DJ; From quiet experiments with anti-totalitarian films in the late 1930s, to full blown propaganda by war's end, the story of Hollywood during the WWII period; B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 254 pages .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394553330 . Light wear and slight dampstaining to DJ; The noted historian turns her sights to the American Revolution ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 347 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. 0684182394 . Wear to DJ extremities; America in the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor bombing ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 243 pages .

New York: The Beechhurst Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. Chipping & small open tears to DJ. Browning to endpapers; Author Coblentz theorizes that, far from being a natural impulse, warmongering is a result of centuries of conditioning and indoctrination; 8vo; 539 pages .

Tokyo: Kanto-Sha. Near Fine. 1956. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and stamp on front endpaper; One book in English, the other in the original Japanese. The latter edition includes all the illustrations and two fold-outs. Contemporary ads. Nice, helpful pencil notes that help to find the according illustration in the Japanese volume ; 8vo; 126, 324 pages .